Civics category: 1212 books
by Brian Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The 'Western' green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades: green ministers are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying supporters, and green direct action against roads, GM crops, the WTO and neo-liberalism, have become ubiquitous.
The author argues...
by Mary Urquhart Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Mary Urquhart Lee, the author of "Parliamentary Lessons: based on "Reed's Rules Of Order," A handbook Of Common Parliamentary Law, has provided a quick, clear, concise explanation of parliamentary procedure for anyone that wants to run a meeting without chaos. It is excellent for clubs,...
Latin American Elections
Choice and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven...
Survival Media
The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Drawing on a variety of expressive forms and acts - the movements of refugee boats, the poetics of hip-hop, narratives of atrocity and survival - this book develops the concept of 'survival media' though the stories and mobilities of the thirty-year war in Sri Lanka. Moving between the hip-hop of M.I.A....
Against All Authority
Anarchism and the Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production. Anarchists have used literary production to express opposition to values and relations characterizing advanced capitalist (and socialist) societies while also expressing key aspects of the alternative values...
Popular Memories
Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking...
Authority Figures
Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing...
Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics
Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics, Damien Pfister explores communicative practices in networked media environments, analyzing, in particular, how the blogosphere has changed the conduct and coverage of public debate. Pfister shows how the late modern imaginary was susceptible to “deliberation...
by Dave Tell
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening...
Governmentality
Critical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political...
George Kateb
Dignity, Morality, Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
George Kateb’s writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy—sovereignty vested in the many—might nevertheless protect, respect, promote, even celebrate the singular, albeit ordinary individual. His essays, often leading to unexpected results, have...
The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations
Dealing in Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This volume draws together some of the key works of Nicholas Rengger, focusing on the theme of the 'anti-Pelagian imagination' in political theory and international relations.
Rengger frames the collection with a detailed introduction that sketches out this 'imagination', its origins and character,...